The Badischer Kunstverein cordially invites you to experience the recently opened performative sound exhibition Radio-Choreography: Acts of Transmission by artist Netta Weiser within a varied programme of events!
Netta Weiser has invited some of her project partners and guests to join her in activating the installation in the atrium. They include the researcher and vocal artist Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (University of Cambridge, UK), the choreographer and dancer Shira Eviatar (Tel Aviv, Israel), artist Myriam Van Imschoot (Brussels, BE) and artist Anissa Rouas (Brussel, BE).
Wednesday, 3.7., Thursday, 4.7.& Friday, 5.7.2024
during the opening times of the exhibition
Performance research and open rehearsals
In an Open Performance Lab format, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Shira Eviatar, Myriam Van Imschoot, Anissa Rouas and Netta Weiser explore various ways to perform within the space of the sound installation. Coming together across disciplines, backgrounds and ages, they use voice, movement and embodied listening, while exploring the relations between body and sound, live action and archival recordings, traditional practices and contemporary performance.
Friday, 5.7.2024
6–7 pm
Performance at the installation
with and by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Shira Eviatar, Myriam Van Imschoot, Anissa Rouas and Netta Weiser
8–9 pm
Radio-Choreography
Radiophonic Lecture Performance
by Netta Weiser [EN]
Interweaving storytelling, sound and live mixing, Netta Weiser presents Radio-Choreography: a radiophonic archive of dance practices created by female choreographers during times of migration and border crossing. In this one hour of collective listening she will play sounds of dance from Beirut, voices from Athens, documents from the German Dance Archives Cologne and field recordings from Tehran and Vienna.
Saturday, 6.7.2024
11:30 am–1:30 pm
Performance at the installation
with and by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Shira Eviatar, Myriam Van Imschoot, Anissa Rouas and Netta Weiser
5–6:30 pm
Vocal and Embodied Transference
Talks with Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Shira Eviatar [EN]
Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will talk about her recent research on vocal transference in the context of Jewish Moroccan communities and diasporas, as well as discuss her long-term archival project KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive, recording sonic memories of Moroccan Jews, with a particular focus on women’s oral traditions.
Shira Eviatar will share her artistic research of body practices and knowledges she inherited from her grandmother, coming from Jewish Moroccan origin. Situated in the understanding of the body as an archive, she will discuss her methodologies of interweaving traditional movement and vocal practices with contemporary dance.
7–8:30 pm
Le Cadeau
Film screening [FR, AR] with subtitles [EN], 48 min
followed by a discussion with director Myriam Van Imschoot [EN]
Le Cadeau (Brussels, 2018) revolves around the four portraits of Malika, Anissa, Fatiha and Sarah, who are all part of the youyou Group. Through song, demonstrations and stories they speak about their relation to their voice, and more in particular to the ‘youyou’ or (in arabic) ‘the zaghareed’, a trill that originally stems from African and Middle-Eastern countries and is used by women to expresses joy or other intense emotions. This film follows the paths of migration and diaspora, the lines of desire and revolt and most of all solidarity.
Sunday 7.7.2024
11 am–12:30 pm
Brunch & Performance at the installation
with and by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Shira Eviatar, Myriam Van Imschoot, Anissa Rouas and Netta Weiser
2–4 pm
Radio broadcast on blessings
with Anissa Rouas, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Shira Eviatar [EN]
at the Kunstverein and live on Querfunk Freies Radio Karlsruhe
Anissa Rouas, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Shira Eviatar share personal relations to Moroccan blessing practices. In this radio broadcast they talk about their respective artistic and academic research of blessings. The conversation will cross between Jewish and Muslim healing practices and tune into female genealogies of blessers. Sounding, singing, and whispering, they activate the sonic power of the blessing – emitting waves of ancient care from the Kunstverein and into the ether.
Monday, 8.7.2024
5–7 pm
Choreographies of Listening
Wokshop led by Netta Weiser [EN]
at the Kunstverein and from there into the public space of the city
This workshop explores the somatic, performative, and political implications of collective listening. How can the act of listening become a performative mode? How can the transitions between looking-at and listening-to affect our ecologies of attention and being in the world? We shall practice a selection of Embodied Listening scores inspired by US-American feminist composer Pauline Oliveros, as well as listening practices deriving from the artistic research project Radio-Choreography.
The workshop is in cooperation with HfG Karlsruhe and open for participation for all; no previous experience needed.
Admission to all events is free!
Radio-Choreography: Acts of Transmission is part of this year’s media art exhibition Media art is here and was supported by the Project Funding Program for Media Art of the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe and by Artis, New York.